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| - In the spirit of the season, I thought I'd throw out a spooky review - the Old Settlers' Cemetery! One of the most useful things to know about the place - and something that I just picked up on the History and Haunts tour - is the difference between a cemetery and a graveyard.
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If like myself, you didn't know, while they are often just a plot of land (often well landscaped), filled with dead bodies, a cemetery is usually a piece of land set aside solely for that purpose, while a graveyard is adjoined to a house of worship - a church of some kind. It's as simple as that. In either case, there may or may not be ghosts around. That's for you to decide.
In this case, the cemetery in question is more like a park than a burial ground, mostly because the bodies buried there are pretty old. In fact, they are so old that many of the markers are no longer marking much of anything. Some are even gone. You will often find passers-by walking their dogs along paths and through the grass, which is a bit odd. There are even doggie mits along the paths, which I find very odd. Nice that they are supplied and all, but really bizarre, you know?
There are some stories, such as bodies that were buried in an area after being found in a portion of CMC Mercy, and then reburied properly after more bodies turned up during remodeling (they were later moved, but are still on the main marker). Definitely an interesting place!
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